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Chuck Norris - Karate Kommandos #1 (1987)

This week, we take on our first-ever Star Comics book, which was a 1980s Marvel Comics line for folks that felt Power Pack was too intense. The Chuck Norris slant here is based off of his toy line and cartoon and not the scene in MISSING IN ACTION 2 where a captor hangs Chuck upside-down and puts a bag with a rat in it over his head but Chuck Norris ends up killing the rat with his mouth. The story goes off the rails pretty much almost immediately and never recovers. By the end, its basically RED DAWN for kids. Starring Chuck Norris.

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I Love You #49 (1963) We jump back to the Charlton Comics romance “MurderVerse” to bring you three more tales of love lost, blinded or simply postponed: a freshly minted widower abandons his newborn son to go mule drugs for Paul Bearer in Venezuela a lovesick woman insults a blind man on a beach a commitment hungry redhead settles for the Charl ...…

Oh man, a long-forgotten DC Comics team of characters from the 90s! These are the most jabroni loser heroes we’ve seen in a long time, with one dude walking around in nothing but Dr. Manhattan’s underpants and a pair of nipple rings. The rest are a bunch of generic heroes with generic powers who just happen to all be hot for each other or somet ...…

Teen-Age Confidential Confessions #16 (1963) Our hearts are pumping romance this month on WCE and we are starting out strong with this Charlton Comics gem of a love anthology. We’ve got: a traumatized woman, haunted by the abandonment of her drug mule father, contemplating marriage due to a rained-out Yankees game a handsome stranger stalking a ...…

Power Lords #1 (1983) Does anyone remember the Power Lords action figures as a kid? Probably not many of you. It was kind of high-concept sci-fi stuff that your grandfather probably liked if he watched Doctor Who. I mean, it feels like DUNE with a prince of mystical origin and all that. Sadly, Patrick Stewart wearing a pug into battle is nowher ...…

X-O Manowar #16 (1993) My perception has always been that Valiant Comics are perpetually boring, with Archer & Armstrong and all that (I’ve never read it). Turns out though, Valiant - specifically X-O Manowar - is violent AF and we like it. Its like an Andy Sidaris movie but doubled-down on exploding viscera instead of fake breasts. The story i ...…

ShadowHawk [vol 1] #4 (1993) We head back to Image for some vengeance-tinged action with Jim Valentino’s ShadowHawk, a character that speaks in second-person and knocks the literal tomato soup out of criminals. Thankfully, Savage Dragon is here to reign him in and possibly break his spine. So much spine-breaking-threatening in this book. Also, ...…

Batman #163 (1964) Its two Silver Age Batman stories in one book….aren’t we blessed? In the first story, Alfred writes some fanfic (for real) that imagines Dick-Batman and Robin Jr. Jr. teaming up with Batwoman II on Earth-40 to face a mad scientist that failed engineering hard and made a fist-ship that should never fly. Thankfully, 100 lb Batw ...…

Speedball #2 (1988) This ain’t a podcast about doing lots of coke and heroin but we do address that. It’s actually about the New Warriors goof that would indirectly kill a bunch of kids in the WWE’s backyard and change comics forever. SPEEDBALL is also another sub-par Steve Ditko book that we’re covering, featuring anachronistic attire, teenage ...…

The Brave and The Bold #51 (1964) In honor of the AQUAMAN movie (which we review), we also dig into the time that Aquaman and Hawkman teamed up to face a Turtle-Eagle-Frog that used to be a disgraced Atlantean politician that became an atrocity. There’s a bunch of malarkey with birds and fish being controlled by the wrong people and what not. W ...…

Tales to Astonish #5 [Vol 2] (1980) In this Sub-Mariner reprint, we get introduced to Todd Arliss aka Tiger Shark who was on the verge of making millions of dollars for swimming until he decided to become a jagged tooth shark man. Is that even possible? Making millions for swimming? Like, ACTUALLY swimming and not just appearing on cereal boxes ...…

Congorilla #4 (1993) In the 90s, no one was safe from getting extreme, not even immortal apes mentally inhabited by jungle explorers. In this Congorilla reboot, Congo Bill’s jungle child companion (ugh) grows up and goes wild…er as he takes over the Congorilla body from Bill and dresses it up as a low rent mall Dracula. This was a surprisingly ...…

Avengers Spotlight #21 (1989) Hawkeye somehow ends up in the desert with Orb, the less-attractive Harvey Dent. They're being stalked by Plantman for ruining his bio-dome which surely had Pauly Shore in it made completely of celery. Hawkeye has to fill his quiver full of water which should effectively ruin his arrows but kayfabe I guess. Later, ...…

This episode is a bit different from the rest because it features no comic book in peril. We’ve been hit with reality the past few weeks so this week, its just Jen and Shawn shooting the breeze about some comic book related madness including a tribute to Stan Lee. Also, cats and pro wrestling. I mean, what else is there? Email the podcast at wo ...…

Sensation Comics #3 (1942) Don’t get fooled — we don’t own this actual comic. If we did, we’d have Dune Action Figure MOC money. This early yet epic installment of Wonder Woman’s history sees using her Amazonian brain to dominate the clerical industry only to get mistaken as a Nazi spy. Thankfully, WW clears her name by having Etta Candy kidnap ...…

The Vision #3 (1995) Vision’s been losing his mind and if that isn’t enough, he’s got the personalities of Wonder Man and a dead cop running around in his head. In the best course of action, Crystal throws sand from Montauk Beach in his face while Vision phases through Giant Man’s 1995 Hulk Hogan body. Did I ever mention that Hulk Hogan blocked ...…

Action Comics #444 (1975) Happy All Saints Day! This week, we check in with Superman and as it turns out, he killed Green Lantern. Spoiler alert: not really. Green Lantern just kayfabed his death so that he can keep Sinestro from dressing him up like Leo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover. Superman’s got other stuff to worry about, like his constant e ...…

Darkhold: Pages From the Book of Sins #5 (1993) This episode is a Halloween crossover with the WHAT THE HOPS podcast hosted by former WCE guest Brian Marek. We drink a few beers, one of which is Freddie Mercury-themed. The comic book isn’t much as its DARKHOLD, one of the lesser known Midnight Sons. It’s basically Ghostbusters but they’re looki ...…

Monster Menace #1 (1993) Its yet ANOTHER anthology reprint gimmick book from Marvel because when else but Halloween times are we going to talk about this. This one comes with a special message from Stan Lee that we can’t be bothered to read. In this creepy collection: a sculptor’s Lou Ferrigno statue runs amok; Plutonians attempt to launder tel ...…

Batman and the Monster Men #5 (2006) This is allegedly the first time Batman and Hugo Strange square off as Strange farting around Gotham, creating a bunch of mutant Great Khalis. Gordon and Batman are getting to know each other (that’s sweet), we see the debut of the Bat-Mobile and, oh yeah, Bruce roofies his girlfriend. Lots of dubious action ...…

Journey Into Mystery [vol 2] #12 (1974) Its October so we are going hardcore on spooky and monster-related books. To kick it off, we jump into JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY which has nothing to do with Thor and friends. This run was an anthology series that collected old Marvel and Atlas fantasy stories. In this particular issue, the writer of ZOMBIE ZO ...…

Hello….we’ve run out of bandwidth this week and were unable to craft an awesome show to release. We are REALLY sorry about that and we will make it up to you by picking up next week. That being said, we didn’t want the feed to go quiet so here is an episode of I CAN TALK KAYFABE, the podcast that Shawn does with Joe Todaro. Its about wrestling ...…

Eclipso #6 (1993) Its about damn time we got back to some Eclipso. In this issue of his ongoing, Eclipso takes over the body of Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy and harasses the crap out of Bruce and Mona. The Creeper is there as well, only to make puns and get stabbed. Later, Eclipso tries to figure out some sort of convoluted poisoned cocaine sche ...…

Fallen Angels #5 (1987) FALLEN ANGELS is NOT a comic about all the wayward daughters that Brett Michaels sang about. It’s basically a Sunspot back door pilot where he putzes around with the techno alien Warlock in (I think) the Bowery, joining up the Vanisher and soon-to-be X-Force randoms Siryn and Boom Boom to commit petty crimes. Bobby’s not ...…

Doom Patrol #117 (1968) The Doom Patrol split up their group early on here because Niles is too concerned with having sex whilst Robotman lies around looking like Anakin Skywalker on Mustafar and Negative Man suffers from ham deprivation. The minute they all leave, Clint Howard in a purple chicken costume arrives to attack a crippled man with a ...…

World’s Finest Comics #233 (1975) As promised, we dig into a Super Sons book this week as Superman Jr. and Batman Jr. Jr. roll into a town of independent women only to get thrown in jail for trying to be groovy. Later, Superman Jr. Jr. Jr. carries Batman Jr. the IV in one hand over his head like a waiter in a restaurant (ass-to-palm) to battle ...…

X-Men [vol 2] #31 (1994) Much like the Bluths, the X-Men Blue team believes that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Join us this week as Gambit cooks up some morning gruel just so he can taunt Rogue that he ate it all while wearing tiny shorts. Also, Archangel and Psylocke get themselves some cappuccino and crash a car. Even Beast ...…

DC Comics Presents #70 (1984) Superman teams up with the Metal Men which is really strange because Superman is hugely bigoted towards robots. Thankfully, Clark is able to suppress his boiling hatred for machine men and team up with them to defeat a technologically gifted doomsday prepper. Also, Marc Maron shows up and attempts a heist in an air ...…

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #77 (1988) Yo Joe! The Joes have been ensnared in a government cover-up on Cobra Island as Fake Cobra Commander and Serpentor battle it out. Serpentor lost though so that means Dr. Mindbender can go full Krieger from ARCHER with his dead body. As for the Joes, they chill with some Vipers to watch a cat fight betwe ...…

Blackhawk #263 (1983) It’s some wild and crazy Nazi punching action with Blackhawk and his merry band of military men. In this issue, Blackhawk and his lady nemesis Domino try to outsmart some villains on the set of CASABLANCA. Meanwhile, the Blackhawk crew fights the War Wheel in Spain and it gets stuck in some sand because beaches. Email the ...…

The Brave and The Bold #123 (1975) We just had to go back to the Bob Haney well because this book is just too ridiculous for us to wait on. Bruce Wayne goes on vacation to Turkey so in his place is a freshly de-vagranted Plastic Man posting as Batman. Plas does a great job too, orchestrating a hostage rescue by having a cross-dressing policeman ...…

Warlock and the Infinity Watch #29 (1994) Not gonna lie…this is a slog of a book. The finish is given away on the cover and it takes the full twenty-two pages to tell something that really only should have taken four. Thankfully, we have a guest in professional wrestler / comedian / comic book writer RAVEN. He’s awesome and he’s here to help us ...…

Visionaries #5 (1988) Does anyone who isn’t a regressed 80’s child remember the Visionaries? Visionaries were a toy line that focused on holograms and poems for boys. The figures were slightly bigger than GI Joes so you couldn’t have them wrestle each other unless if the Visionaries were from the land of Manute Bols. This short-lived comic foll ...…

Blue Beetle [vol 1] #21 (1988) Its a Millennium crossover! Blue Beetle and Mister Miracle return from a JLI meeting where the heroes determine the best course of action to beat the Manhunters is to burn a hole into the earth. Mister Miracle watches Supermarket Sweep on Lifetime in the Bug while Ted goes up to his office and pretends to work. He ...…

Justice League of America #186 (1981) So, Elongated Man gets monitor duty on the JLA Satellite and makes a peanut butter & swiss cheese sandwich because apparently he can bend his stomach so he doesn’t throw up. Or maybe he’s just one of those guys who do that thing you would do in high school where you would down ALL the condiments mixed today ...…

Captain America #434 (1994) Jack Flag’s parents were strong-armed out of their home by the Serpent Society who’ve decided the smart criminal money is in Arizona real estate scams. So, Jack dyes his hair like a rocket pop, rigs up a JVC boombox to shoot lasers and offers up his non-snake related persona to the Serpent Society like some completel ...…

The Brave and the Bold #79 (1968) Its about time we go WAY back and it also happens to be our first Deadman-centric book, which is shocking. Thankfully for us (and for you the listener), this book is peak Bob Haney so its out of its mind. Deadman decides to solicit Batman’s help in finding his hooked-handed killer and it JUST HAPPENS that some ...…

TekWorld #1 (1992) We just can’t get out of this year of 1992, can we? Eh, its ok. That was the year WAYNE’S WORLD came out. It was a good year. In TEKWORLD, William Shatner creates a buff avatar for himself, a former cop named Jake Cardigan, disgraced by getting hooked on Tek, a VR drug that makes you relive the entirety of HBO’s ENTOURAGE. He ...…

Black Condor #1 (1992) Its the pride of the New Jersey wilderness, the Black Condor, this week as we dig in on this random-ass, Primal Force-ass hero’s book. This is not to be confused with the Black Condor that was a human baby who was raised by actual condors to legit fly and go on to impersonate a Congressman. No, this Black Condor was a gen ...…

Secret Weapons #4 (1993) Its our first foray into the Valiant Comics universe and surprisingly, its not an issue of ARCHER & ARMSTRONG seeing how every dollar box ever in any comic book store is 50% ARCHER & ARMSTRONG. ARCHER & ARMSTRONG is like ALPHA FLIGHT but its wearing a newsie cap. No, this week we cover SECRET WEAPONS, which is supposed ...…

Nova Vol 2 #2 (1994) At this point, its quite possible that Fabian Nicieza has written every comic that we’ve done on this show. I mean, have we gone insane with New Warriors-related books? Let’s be honest, they are not that good. Bunch of boring young heroes doing boring young hero stuff like playing video games and pretending to be Batman. An ...…

Adventure Comics #420 (1972) Its a mish-mash of stories this week with Supergirl taking the helm. First up, she ends up on a planet of, like, four dudes. There are these three evil scientists bros who keep trying to kill this puke-colored Adonis guy who gets all inappropriate with Supergirl. Everyone dies, Supergirl does nothing and leaves. The ...…

Alpha Flight #91 (1990) We’re back to Alpha Flight because we love it. Well, Shawn loves it. Jen’s not that impressed. In this issue, Dr. Doom sets a literal “thirst trap” as he tries to convince Canada to give him fresh water for his parched Latverians. Turns out though, the deal is some sort of gimmick to piss off Symkaria and Silver Sable’s ...…

Justice League Task Force #0 (1994) We are caught between Easter and Wrestlemania as we head back to the 90s and the one of the #0 issues that surfaced due to DC’s Zero Hour event. In this one, a new Justice League Task Force is formed with the lead character being Martian Manhunter’s arm hair. To that point, I think Jason Mantzoukas could make ...…

Iron Man #55 (1973) We take on an actual CLASSIC comic with significant events and debuts that still manages to be stupid with IRON MAN from 1973. Thanos is here for the first time as is Drax and Starfox and all the other cosmic goobers you’ve grown to love. Still though, its a ridiculous book as Tony gets a wicked migraine and gets beat up in ...…

Detective Comics #573 (1987) The Mad Hatter returns in this issue of DETECTIVE COMICS as he gets released from prison and immediately makes a hat out of a newspaper. Batman’s response is to run for city councilman with no political affiliation which goes as about as well as you’d expect. Mad Hatter shows up to throw a few razor fedoras while Ja ...…

Annex: Crucible of Power #1 (1994) Annex is one of those Marvel characters that was introduced via poly-bagged card in the 1993 Annuals. He basically can use his suit of armor to think up guns and weapons and stuff as well as a new leg for himself (because his civilian identity is missing one). If he was smart, he’d think up a better color than ...…

Infinity Inc #22 (1986) This week, we are in the midst of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS in this issue of INFINITY INC which sees the Infinity-eers transported to the Monitor’s ship for the most awkward company picnic ever. Silver Scarab and Fury are farting around asking everyone “are you my mother” while Skyman sarges on Wonder Girl only to go dow ...…

Justice: Four Balance #1 (1994) Something’s off because we are back in New Warriors land with this Justice/Marvel Boy/Vance Astro mini-series that reads like a formulaic episode of LAW & ORDER: SVU. Its basically “let’s cram everything about Vance’s life into four issues” as he and Firestar “Video Factory and relax,” gets called a father-killer ...…

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